ENG:The Republican Party, also commonly called the GOP (for "Grand Old Party"), is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, the other being the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery activists in 1854, it dominated politics nationally for most of the period from 1860 to 1932. There have been 18 Republican presidents, the first being Abraham Lincoln, serving from 1861-1865, and the most recent being George W. Bush, serving from 2001-2009.
Currently the party's platform is generally based upon American conservatism, in contrast to the Democratic Party, who endorse more liberal policies. American conservatism of the Republican Party is not wholly based upon rejection of the political ideology of liberalism, as many principles of American conservatism are ...

The goal of Americans For Prosperity, Americans For Tax Reform and other conservative groups is to defund the left. This isn’t some liberal left leaning opinion. This is a fact put out by the conservatives themselves.Grover Norquist, who is the unelected head of the Republican Party and the head of Americans For Tax Reform (No Tax Pledge) said, “We will hunt [these liberal groups] down one by one and extinguish their funding sources.” This brings me to my point regarding the recent attacks on teachers, firefighter and police officers. Unions have long been the funding source ...

Although a minority of Republicans approve of President Barack Obama's job performance, some remain optimistic about the country's direction. Here are opinions from five Republicans who voted for Sen. John McCain in the presidential election but still believe the country is headed in the right direction, even under Obama's watch:___William Bialozor, 46, of Walla Walla, Wash., teaches Junior ROTC at a high school.—Why do you think the country is headed in the right direction?"I think based on the last election we've got more of an openness of the two country's parties working together out ...

Whenever a president gives a major address, like the one Barack Obama delivered to Congress this week, the opposition party delivers a rejoinder. Which American citizens always ignore. Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal’s speech was, therefore, a kind of triumph. So bad, people actually paid attention!
We will pass over Jindal’s delivery, which sounded a little like a junior high schooler’s entry into the Chamber of Commerce “I Speak for Fiscal Restraint” contest. The content was the thing: a message to the nation that the Republicans were not going to have anything ...